家庭生活节约能源使用

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播音\撰文：卡伦·霍普金（Karen Hopkin）

翻译：邱燕宁

审校：张清越

The rise in technology, particularly for information and communication, is radically transforming lifestyles. For example, many people can now work from home and still be in almost constant contact with the office. Or maybe you prefer your own couch for watching a recently released movie rather than trekking to the local theater.

科技的发展，尤其是信息和通讯方式的发展，正在彻底的改变人们的生活方式。例如，许多人现在可以在家工作，而几乎仍然与办公室保持稳定联系。或者，你更喜欢在你自己的沙发上看一部最近上映的电影，而非去当地的电影院。

“This technology induced lifestyle changes affect how people consume energy and ultimately affect the energy demand of the nation.”

“这种技术导致的生活方式的转变，会影响人们消费能源的方式，从而最终影响到国家的能源需求。”

Ashok Sekar, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. To assess how our changing usage of technology might alter our energy consumption, Sekar and his colleagues first set out to determine how much more we’re in our homes than we were in the past.

Ashok Sekar，德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的博士后研究员说。为了评估我们如何通过改变技术使用从而改变我们的能源消耗情况，Sekar和他的同事们首先着手于确定我们在家的时间比过去多了多少。

For more than a decade, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has surveyed how Americans spend their time each day. More than 11,000 citizens respond to the survey each year.

十多年来，美国劳工统计局对美国人每天的时间利用进行了调查。每年有多于11，000的市民回复响应了这项调查。

Crunching the numbers from this survey, the researchers found that Americans are definitely logging more hours in their living rooms.

研究人员分析了这项调查的数据后发现，美国人确实在客厅里待的更久了。

“When compared to 2003, in 2012, Americans spent eight days more at home.”

“2012年美国人在家里的花费的时间比2003年多了足足8天。”

That’s seven fewer days spent in “nonresidential spaces” and one less day spent traveling per year. And that’s on average. The younger generation exhibited even stronger homebody tendencies.

平均来看，人们每年在“非居住空间”中花的时间少了7天，而在旅行上花的时间少了一天。年轻一代表现出了更强的居家倾向。

“The population aged 18 to 24 spent two weeks more at home in 2012 compared to 2003. Which is 70 percent higher change than the average population.”

“与2003年相比，2012年18-24岁的人口在家多呆了两周。这种变化比平均值变化高了70%。”

And that shift in location translates into surprisingly large energy savings. The researchers calculate that Americans are reducing energy use by 1,200 trillion Btus by not hopping in our cars. And we’re saving thousand trillion Btus by skipping public appearances at the mall, movie theaters, and the office. The study is in the journal Joule. That’s J-O-U-L-E, which like the Btu is a unit of energy. [Ashok Sekar, Eric Williams and Roger Chen, Changes in Time Use and Their Effect on Energy Consumption in the United States]

而这种位置的转变，导致了惊人的巨大的能源节约。研究人员计算出，通过减少车辆使用，美国人正减少1200万亿Btu的能量消耗。而通过减少去商场、电影院和办公室等公共场所的时间，能节省千万亿Btu的能量。这项研究发表在《Joule》期刊上。J-O-U-L-E，和Btu一样，是能量的单位。

Now, obviously we still use energy while at home. But not all activities are equally draining when it comes to our dependence on the power grid.

很明显，我们在家里仍然会使用能源。但是，当涉及对电力的依赖时，并非所有的活动都有同样的消耗。

“Activities at home on average takes less energy per minute compared to time spent in your car or commercial buildings.”

“与汽车或商业建筑比，家庭活动的平均每分钟消耗能量量更少。”

To save even more energy, Sekar suggests that we focus on improving the energy efficiency of home appliances and consumer electronics—the stuff we use more when we’re working from home. All day. In our pajamas. See, we even saved the energy we’d otherwise expend getting dressed.

为了节省更多的能源，Sekar建议我们专注于提高家用电器和电子消费品的能源效率——那些当我们在家工作时使用更多的东西。一整天穿着睡衣，看，我们甚至节省了穿衣服的能量。

—Karen Hopkin

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